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Chen returns to his school when he finds out that his martial arts teacher has died. When he learns that his school students are harassed by some hooligans, he gears himself up to save them. From TMDB

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  • Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.appBluesky · Oct 4, 2026

    This is legitimately the greatest martial arts movie ever made. It’s not my favorite. I have my favorite. It’s Fist of Legend. But Drunken Master 2 is a perfect film in its own right that also has the greatest stunt work you’ve ever seen in it.

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  • Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.appBluesky · Sep 19, 2025

    Okay. I’ll share. My favorite Kung Fu movie, and I’ve seen plenty, is Fist Of Legend starring Jet Li.

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  • Clinton of the Damned 🎃👻 @puritythrufire.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 29, 2025

    FIST OF LEGEND Dir: Gordon Chan 1994 #NowWatching Taking this one up to a full 5 stars. Movie is balls to the wall awesome and win or lose, Billy Chow is one scary fucker!

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  • Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.comBluesky · Nov 25, 2024

    To newcomers I usually recommend Fist of Legend with Jet Li and Legend of Drunken Master with Jackie Chan. For the best Bruce Lee movie, Way of the Dragon, hands down. And my personal favorite is the Motown classic The Last Dragon bsky.app/profile/pecu...

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  • Clinton of the Damned 🎃👻 @puritythrufire.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2026

    Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #106 "Fist of Legend" (Gordon Chan/1994) An absolute masterpiece of martial arts cinema! Jet Li fights like a beast and Billy Chow can kill a man in his sleep. You seriously need to check this one out.

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  • eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 28, 2026

    I will neither confirm nor deny my involvement in the increased frequency of #BrigitteLin #林青霞 films shown at Duke. Join us for our mini retro-martial arts cinema arc this spring, with screenings of FIST OF LEGEND and PEKING OPERA BLUES (I'll be doing a brief intro for the latter) at The Ruby!

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  • Dawn of The Discs @dawnofthediscsnews.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 30, 2025

    Coming to 4K Digital on 2/18 and 4K UHD in the future from Shout Factory Fist of Legend (1994) Tai Chi Master (1993) The Legend (1993) The Legend 2 (1993) The Bodyguard from Beijing (1994) According to Brandon Bentley 3/5 will ALSO include dub tracks variety.com/2025/film/ne... #FilmSky

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  • 🦇Bram Stoker’s Grantula🦇 @grantthethief.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 26, 2025

    Tonight it’s time for another episode of Blade Licking Thieves, and we’re reviewing Gordon Chan’s 1994 film Fist of Legend starring none other than Jet Li! As always, send in your questions and we’ll tackle them on the show.

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  • 🦇Bram Stoker’s Grantula🦇 @grantthethief.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2025

    Our latest Blade Licking Thieves podcast is here, with this one being our review of Gordan Chan’s 1994 film Fist of Legend starring Jet Li! We discuss the film’s approach to action choreography, its nature as a remake/retelling, and how its characters stack up to similar films. Enjoy!

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  • Zodiac Chiller Dionysiac @thedionysiac.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2025

    As a #Junesploitation bonus on '90s Action day I watched "Fist of Legend" aka. 精武英雄 (1994) - Director: Gordon Chan This remake of the Bruce Lee classic "Fist of Fury" starring Jet Li has some of the most hard hitting, bone-breaking action scenes ever put on film and I was lapping up every second!

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  • Bill-a Lugosi's Dead @neokefka99.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 7, 2026

    Thinking about "heroes need to get beat up" while watching FIST OF LEGEND this morning. It's a remake of FIST OF FURY and like that movie, you can probably count on one hand the number of hits Chen Zen takes. (In both movies together, honestly) and yet it works.

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  • Dr. Aggro @draggro.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2025

    Rewatching Fist of Legend after it came up short on the latest Blessed Blontent Blub poll on the patreon. (I didn't even bring it, Kris beat me to it.) It is still amazing the extent to which Chen Zhen is just HIM in this movie. Motherfucking industrial aura plantation.

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  • hungryghoast @hungryghoast.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 19, 2025

    Fist of Legend is the first movie that made me think kung fu is cool as hell and now I teach it so yeah hell yeah

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  • 𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗟 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡 @outlawvern.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2024

    Today I have a double-header of action-horror reviews. The highlight is SHADOW: DEAD RIOT (2006), an American women-in-prison vs. zombies + kung fu movie directed by FIST OF LEGEND cinematographer Derek Wan.

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  • NateMing on Elm Street @nateming.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2025

    people will describe a "realistic" martial arts movie and then use something like Fist of Legend as an example no, it's not realistic and that's perfectly fine, the movie rocks actual realism is something like Black Belt (2007) or most of Iron & Silk (1990) except for the final "sparring match"

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  • Nightmare On Grim Street: Grim Warriors @oldmangrim.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 21, 2026

    My personal fav Jet Li film is "Fist of Legend", where he re-made Bruce Lee's second film "Fist of Fury" (released as The Chinese Connection in the U.S. for years) It's the film that made The Wachowskis call up Li's film choreographer, Yuen Woo-ping You don't have The Matrix without Fist of Legend

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  • Cinema Strikes Back @cinemastrikesback.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2024

    Yup. I do think Fist of Legend is probably his best film, and probably one of the best martial arts films of all time, and he’s dead serious in that one, but man I love goofy ass Kung Fu Cult Master Jet.

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  • Sesame Squirrel @SesameSquirrelMastodon · Dec 9, 2023

    I am so sorry, my #KungFuSat 👊🏼 #FistOfLegend peeps, but I just CANNOT keep up with everyone's posts during the awesomeness of this movie 🤷🏻‍♀️ I apologize in advance 🙈

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  • Dr. Dani Sanchez @analgesicsleepMastodon · Dec 9, 2023

    Not enough Kung Fu films turn into courtroom dramas #KungFuSat #FistOfLegend

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  • RoryDropkick @rorydropkick.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 18, 2025

    Name your favorite martial arts film. WARNING: Unfair prompt 😅 This could change in the blink of an eye... Fist of Legend (1994)

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  • Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2024

    CHIN Siu-Ho (Niu in this film) was also in the classic Jet Li films TAI CHI MASTER and FIST OF LEGEND #FrightClub 🧛🏻 #BioRaiders

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  • Sesame Squirrel @SesameSquirrelMastodon · Dec 9, 2023

    #KungFuSat 👊🏼 #FistOfLegend Welcome my friends, to one of my all time favorite movies! A KFS poll said you'd prefer this today over another new pick ♥️ I am watching the (goofily) dubbed version 🤣

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  • Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.cityBluesky · Jul 10, 2023

    Ten movie films for reckoning me - Barry Lyndon - End of Evangelion - The Wicker Man - Time Bandits - Hobo With a Shotgun - The Blues Brothers - Man With a Movie Camera - Demolition Man - Fist of Legend - Equilibrium

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  • Tabbi @timidtabby.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2026

    Morning stupid thoughts: Saw a thumbnail for a movie called "Fist of Legend" So my dumb cat brain started thinking of alternate titles and began chortling and cackling on the floor. Any of these alts make you laugh or cringe? -Legend of Fist -Fist Legend -Old Fist Legend ->

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  • Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2025

    Today at IMMORTAL SCIENCE, we recognize that our readers are busy and may not have upwards of 90 minutes to watch even the finest film. We therefore offer an instant-message summary, as with today's of the 1994 Jet Li classic-qua-remake FIST OF LEGEND. immortalscience.pika.page/posts/imcinema

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  • Film In Forty @filminforty.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    My ★★★½ review of Fist of Legend on Letterboxd boxd.it/aW5jJ7 #filmsky

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  • Sesame Squirrel @SesameSquirrelMastodon · Dec 9, 2023

    Ironically, #JetLi ALSO portrayed HUO Ren Jia, the murdered (offscreen) master, in Ronnie YU's FEARLESS, which we also watched on KFS #KungFuSat 👊🏼 #FistOfLegend

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  • Sesame Squirrel @SesameSquirrelMastodon · Dec 9, 2023

    @kcarr2015 @MatthewTitus88 @JanineFromPgh THAT IS CLASSIC: welcome to [CC] Comedy Theater -- :blobpats: 🤣#KungFuSat 👊🏼 #FistOfLegend

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  • Sesame Squirrel @SesameSquirrelMastodon · Dec 9, 2023

    OW!!! Falling to kneel on the stone floor -- my knees hirt just WATCHING that scene! 💥💥#KungFuSat 👊🏼 #FistOfLegend

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  • Joe Wycked 🌻🚗⛰️ @[email protected]Mastodon · Dec 9, 2023

    Here for a movie with punch. #FistOfLegend #KungFuSat

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  • Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.orgBluesky · May 4, 2026

    Great movie. Fist of Legend is my fav. That blindfolded duel…

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  • Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.appBluesky · Mar 21, 2026

    One of my all-time favs. My comfort movie is Fist of Legend

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  • AJ: A Mario Bava Film @ajmacready.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2025

    THEM (sarcastic, shallow, unserious): Morgan Freeman? Wow, that automatically makes it Jet Li's best movie, huh? YOU (knowing, wise, broadened): No, that's FIST OF LEGEND. It *is* Top 5 Morgan Freeman flicks, tho.

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  • Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2025

    watching the English dub of Fist of Legend (1994), whose fight scenes were so good, they inspired the Wachowski sisters to hire the choreographer for Fist of Legend for their film in production, The Matrix youtu.be/XB9FicC0PhY

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  • Peter G @kingsigy.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2024

    Fist of Legend is probably Li's best film, but I would argue Fearless is also up there.

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  • Sesame Squirrel @SesameSquirrelMastodon · Dec 9, 2023

    @MatthewTitus88 YUP. Which is why our #ActionMatinee film at 2pm ET today has non-Latin-alpha subs in the free link 👍🏼 HOPE Y'ALL CAN JOIN! 💋🌚 Not even sure what the PlutoTV version has -- dubbing or subs Please enjoy all the posters 😁#TheLongKissGoodnight😆 #KungFuSat 👊🏼 #FistOfLegend are we at The Final Showdown already? This movie flies by!

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  • ManWithPez @ManWithPezMastodon · Dec 9, 2023

    I had to go dig out my #FistofLegend Bluray. Been too long since I've watched it, and I am hyped! I love this movie! #KungFuSat

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  • Breuckelen Lugarhou @lagahoo.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2026

    Share an ACTION movie title that begins with the letter “F” 🎥 F is for… ‘Fist of Legend’ 🖤 #moviesky #filmsky

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  • Ed Travis @edtravis.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2026

    I’m extremely excited to have had the opportunity to purchase this and look forward to diving in deep. There have been times that I’ve argued FIST OF LEGEND is the best martial arts film of all time. And the FONG SAI YUK films will be first time watches for me. (I understand I’m in for a treat).

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  • Rick Bullard @rickbullard.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 12, 2026

    Yup. Most people know him as the uncle character in FIST OF LEGEND but LEGEND OF A FIGHTER opposite Leung Kar yan is a GOOD movie.

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  • Jay @istarispartan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2025

    #Filmsky #Movies 🎬🎥 Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order, gifs only. #blacksky #caribbeansky #islandsky Day 15: Fist of Legend

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  • Sesame Squirrel @SesameSquirrelMastodon · Dec 9, 2023

    @JanineFromPgh The Uncle is played by one of those classic HITG actors of HK cinema 😁#KungFuSat 👊🏼 #FistOfLegend

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  • Cinema Yūgen @cinemayugen.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2026

    Share an ACTION movie title that begins with the letter “F” 🎥 F is for… Fist of Legend (1994) 🖤

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  • Bob of the Olde Ways 💚🤍🩶🖤🏹 @oldewaysbob.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2026

    Turns out a 30 year old kung fu movie has a lot to say about our current political moment here in the USA. FIST OF LEGEND (1994) is one of the best martial arts movies ever made. It's also a fascinating exploration of fascism, resistance, and the price of national identity. #hegseth

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  • MCBiohazard @mcbiohazard.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2026

    What's your favorite movie from every decade in your life? 80s: A Better Tomorrow 90s: Fist of Legend 00s: Shaolin Soccer 10s: Pacific Rim 20s: Everything Everywhere All At Once

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  • Olyphantastic @olyphantastic.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2025

    Are you going through my blu-ray collection from the late oughts? What is next? The Shinjuku Incident? Flashpoint? Force of Five? Chocolate? Raging Phoenix? Kill Zone? The whole CineAsia collection (Tai Chi Master, the old Fist of Legend blu-ray and the IP Man film also from that company).

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  • Emissary Janus @blacktonystark.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 19, 2025

    Fist of Legend is my favorite overall Jet Li movie, but Kiss of the Dragon will always be a favorite of mine.

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  • 🎃 Prof Spooky 🦇 @depresseddeveloper.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 19, 2025

    In my youth, I went on a quest to find the best martial arts film. You would think this was an impossible task (and deep down I knew it too), but after watching dozens and dozens of them I came across Fist of Legend and I stopped searching.

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  • spladam @spladam.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 17, 2025

    If I remember right, he was directing Drunken Master 2 until him and Jacky had some creative differences during the filming and he left the production, so he was killed off with a gun in the Axe Gang scene. That movie blew my high school mind, the same dude sold me Fist of Legend a month later...

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  • Jeffrey Roberson @hippiex.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2025

    Watching Fist of Legend. 🎬🎥📼 #filmsky #jetli #kungfu letterboxd.com/film/fist-of...

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  • Alex Wentzell @alexwentzell.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2025

    Fist of Legend is the last movie in the collection.

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  • Vince Marotte @vincemarotte.comBluesky · May 1, 2025

    Fist Of Legend is my all time favorite Kung Fu movie

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  • Shane Kiely @shanekse85.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2025

    The final fight in Fist of Legend might be my favourite from any Kung Fu/Wuxia/vaguely martial arts themed movie

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  • Robert Elliott @robertdelliott.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 21, 2024

    I got the two Fong Sai Yuk films originally from HK on DVD before Jet Li was really famous so I'd yet to see things like OUATIC or Fist of Legend. At the time they were so much better than anything else I'd seen. They're still great, though nostalgia definitely colours my appreciation. #filmsky

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  • Rew Prescott @rewcifer.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2024

    Merry Martial Movie 6/31: Fist of Legend (1994) Speaking of Chen Zhen, here's the same story as Fist of Fury, with Jet Li in his 90s prime. The wushu master is known for his grace, but this movie shows another side. Brutal fishhooks, ear rips, crotch shots, and complicated politics. Check it out!

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  • Dave Shramek @dshramek.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2024

    Literally my reaction to The Matrix when I walked out was "Oh. A couple of white kids finally did a decent Hong Kong action movie." And of course they did, because they got the choreographer of Fist of Legend to do the same fight with the Japanese general but in a subway.

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  • kuriVAIM 👻 𓃠 @kuriva.imBluesky · May 4, 2024

    It's interesting to compare Bruce Lee in FIST OF FURY to Jet Li in FIST OF LEGEND in this regard ― Bruce Lee is never in "peril", which makes for a very different sort of movie

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  • T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 13, 2024

    That said, coming back into Fist of Legend as an adult ...give me all the cultural nuance and as much of a definitive cut of this film as possible. Though, I think Sean Gilman has said that aspects of the Miramax cut have bled over into later hybrid versions. Waiting to see 88's release description.

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  • Sailor 51 Pegasi b 👻 @exosailorscout.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2024

    Fist of Legend (1994) Pretty good movie despite the atrocious sound quality and ADR. Basically every duel in this movie is good and memorable but my favorite is the fight between Chen Zhen and Funakoshi. The way the hay is kicked up just hits different.

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  • V. Longshot (Voice of the Void) @vylenza.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2023

    Saw this tonight and I’m not sure how this slipped past me for all these years. A WIP zombie kung fu movie, with Misty Mundae, Ruby LaRocca, and Tony Todd. Filled with Jess Franco references like characters named Lina, Brigitte, and Elsa Thorne… and it’s directed by the guy who did Fist of Legend!

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Jet Li
Chen Zhen
Shinobu Nakayama actor profile photo
Shinobu Nakayama
Mitsuko Yamada
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Chin Siu-Ho
Hou Ting-En
Billy Chow Bei-Lei actor profile photo
Billy Chow Bei-Lei
General Fujita
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Yasuaki Kurata
Fuimo Funakoshi
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Paul Chun Pui
Nong Jinsun
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Ada Choi Siu-Fan
Rose
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Jackson Liu
Ryuichi Akutagawa

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